Handbag initial



M. CHERNOW HANDBAG INITIAL Aug. 3, 1937.

Filed Aug. 28, 1935 IlY ` INVEN-roR ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 3, 1937 UNITED STATES HANDBAG INITIAL Michael Chernow, New York, N. Y., assigner to Service Patents Corporation, a corporationof New York Application August 28, 1935, Serial No. 33,198

4 Claims.

My present invention relates to initialed ladies handbags and to the initial units therefor as such.

Among the objects of thel invention are to provide handbags with removable initials, which,

while stiff and hard for durability, are yet so conformed and correlated as to present no sharp or protruding edges, apt during use to be snagged or to injure the person or the clothing, and do not appreciably detract either from the limberness or the symmetry of the bag in use.

In the accompanying drawing, in which are shown one or more of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention,

Fig. l is a perspective view of a ladys handbag with the initial monogram units applied thereto,

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on a larger scale taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the relation of the bag and the initial, with the bag in use,

Fig. 4 is a perspective View from the rear of the letter unit,

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan View of a modified form of letter shown applied, and

cation of Fig. 5.

Referring now to the drawing, there is shown in Fig. 1 a conventional ladys handbag lil, of leather, fabricoid, canvas or the like, having removably affixed on one side thereof, the `initials II of the wearer.

Each initial is preferably a unitary block of stiff metal stock, concave as at I2 at its rear face. The concavity is cylindrical and on a relatively large radius with the generatrix of the cylinder horizontal. The upper and lower edges I3 and I4 of the unit are illustratively also shown horizontal in the specific embodiment illustrated. Prongs I5 are soldered, welded, brazed or otherwise rigidly bonded or secured at IS to the concave backs of the letters, said prongs being spaced as shown at I1 from the upper and lower edges of the units.

In a preferred embodiment, the front of the unit is convex as at I8, but said convexity is on a smaller radius than that of the concavity of the back, thereby determining a unit of maximum thickness near its middle, tapering to thin upper and lower edges I3 and I4, which may be 50 slightly rounded. The unit is applied by piercing the bag with the prongs I5 and clenching them over as at 20 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

As best shown in Fig. 2, the clenching of the prongs into the fabric causes the solder lugs I6 to become slightly depressed into the fabric and Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4 of the modifi- (Cl. -20) l the protruding upper and lower edges I3 and I4,

by virtue of the vconcavity Vare snugly engaged-V with the fabric, the fabric along the height of the letter becoming slightly bowed outward as at 2i as a result of the clenching operation as shown in Fig. 2. It is understood, however, that the prongs might ble-soldered or otherwise attachedto the unit, without affording protruding lugs l5, as, for instance, byap'plying the solder in corresponding wells or depressions in thefback of the unit.` Itis 'seen that the' aligned'concaveback stiif initial units making up the monogram as in Fig. 1, present a'conformation adapted toy the fulln-ess of the bag. Thus when the bag is in use, its contents cause the fabric to bow outward for more intimate engagement with the concave backs I2 of the unit, as best shown in Fig. 3. When flat-backed initials are attached to the originally flat bag, there is a marked tendency for the bag in use to back or pull away from the tops and bottoms of the letter units, with likelihood of injury to the person and clothing by the projecting edges of the characters and with serious strain on the bag and likelihood of ripping thereof. In the present invention there is no appreciable tendency, on the one hand for the letter units to be pried loose by the pressure lof the carried articles, or, on the other hand, to interfere with the limberness or symmetry of the bag in use. y

The initial units being rigid, stiff and substantial in thickness, are not subject to bending, breakage or loss and by virtue of the inter-relation above described, with the upper and lower edges flush at all times, with the fabric of the bag, there is eliminated any crevice or spaced edge or corner apt to become snagged or caught in use, against clothing of the wearer or of the passer-by.

The embodiment of Figs. 5 and 6 shows the application of the invention to initial units of the slanting type. Such unit I I has preferably hori- Zontal upper and lower edges I3 and I4' and thev generatrix of the cylindrical concavity l2 of the of this invention are embodied, and which article in its action attains the various objects of the invention and is well suited to meet the requirements of practical use.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, vwhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: y j

1. A monogram initial unit for a hangbag, comprising a blank of thick metal stock, convex at n its forward face and concave on'a greater radius at its back, the convexity and the concavity both being cylindrical, with the generatrix thereof parallel to the upper and lower edges of the monogram, therebyto determine relatively sharp upper and lower edges, and prongs bonded to the concave 'back and spaced from the upper and lower edges thereof.

.2. The combination with a handbag, of one or more initial units removably attached to the outer facelthereof, each of said units of relatively heavy stockand having its back face concave, to determine when applied to the handbag a cylindrical surface A.with a. common horizontal generatrix,

each of said units having prongs rigid therewith, spaced from the upper and lower edges thereof, and piercing the fabric of the bag for attachment thereof, whereby in use, the bag will conform to the concavity of the monogram unit, thereby to maintain the edges of the monogram unit flush with the material of the bag.

3. 'Ihe combination with a'handbag, of a series of stiff metal initial units secured thereto, each ofsald units comprising a blank of metal having a concave back, the concavities of said units extending along a common cylinder with horizontal generatrix, each of said units having a number of prongs bonded thereto, spaced from the upper and lower edges thereof and clenched to the material of the bag, whereby in use the units will be conformed vto the outer convexity of the bag, with the upper and lower edges thereof, substantially flush with the bag.

'4. The combination with a handbag of a series of initial units aflixed thereto, each of said units comprising a metal blank, convex at its forward edges and prongsy spaced from the upper and f lower edges of said units, bonded to the concave backs thereof and clenched to the fabric of said bag.

MICHAEL CHERNOW. 

